[afnog] Resize FreeBSD partition

[Geert Jan de Groot]

On Thu, 1 Sep 2005 21:39:28 +0100  Brian Candler wrote:
> Otherwise, for the partitions within the FreeBSD slice: you could dump(8)
> them to a remote machine, and to restore(8) them afterwards. You can pipe
> dump/restore to a remote file over ssh. e.g.

..

> dump/restore are effective but don't allow you to restore data selectively.
> So you may prefer to use tar or cpio if you just want to be able to restore
> individual data files rather than the whole O/S.

In fact, selective restore is possible, by using 'restore -i'
You get dropped in some kind of shell and can then add/remove
what you want, then extract.

Like 'restore -x', -i doesn't work well with multi-level dumps,
but it works *fine* for single level-0 dumps.

If I would need to do this, this is what I would do
(and I've been doing it this way ever since an 500M drive
was more expensive than a car and would take several people to lift..)


Geert Jan